Easily Change Your Firefox Theme With Personas

More than an year ago, we presented a plug-in called Personas: it was all about you Firefox theme, as it allowed to change your theme on the fly, from a huge list, without restarting your browser.

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Today I just want to show how Personas works, and why it is a great plug-in to have if you like changing your browser’s appearance often.
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Take Screenshots Of Web Pages in Firefox: Talon

In the past we have covered some Firefox’s plugins that enabled you to take screenshots of web pages’ regions on the fly: their names were Screengrab and Fireshot.

There’s also a new extension that I’d like to share with you, which has been launched by Aviary.com, a suite of web based products for image and audio editing.

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Its name is Talon, and it is a Firefox plugin which lets you capture regions of your browser with the click of a button, edit them online, and then save them as PNG files on your computer.
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Video Capture Your Entire Screen: CaptureFox

Many times bloggers feel the need of creating video tutorial to best express what they want to communicate to people. There are a bunch of free and paid applications that help you do that, also web-based actually such as ScreenToaster (which I really recommend to anyone as you can use it on any operating system or browser, and which I will cover soon in an article), but a Firefox’s user dream would be an add-on that lets you record your screen.

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It is called Capture Fox, a handy tool to create tutorials about a software, a web site or anything that can be displayed on your computer, and not only in your browser as you would think! It records your screen frame by frame, as well as your voice, to AVI files.
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Integrate Wolfram Alpha Into Google’s Search Result Page

Wolfram Alpha is an answer engine developed by Wolfram Research. It is an online service that answers factual queries directly by computing the answer from structured data, rather than providing a list of documents or web pages that might contain the answer as a search engine would.
Source: Wikipedia

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I have been using Wolfram Alpha for graphing functions and calculus problems, but you can use it for any question that needs to be computed, such as calculations, weather tables, measurements and unit conversion etc.

Today I want to show you a way for embedding Wolfram Alpha’s results directly into Google’s search result page: the answer is a simple add-on for Firefox called Wolfram Alpha Google.
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Backup And Sync Your Bookmarks And Your Password For Free – Xmarks

With Xmarks you can sync your password and sync and backup your different bookmark to different PC using Sync Profiles.

Bookmarks Syncronization:

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To sync your bookmarks it’s easy. Just install Xmarks on each computer you use, and it seamlessly integrates with your web browser and keeps your bookmarks in sync.

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Enhance The Way You Interact With Content: KwiClick

Tired of searching for an address opening Google Maps in a new tab? Want to get things done a little bit faster, without losing the quality of the services you normally use?

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KwiClick is a fantastic Firefox add-on that allows you to browse multiple pages simultaneously, so that you don’t need to waste any time browsing search results, maps, or anything that concerns Google, YouTube, Amazon, Wikipedia, FriendFeed and more.
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Easily Download Music and Videos from YouTube: NetVideoHunter

Are you one of those people who can’t live without watching videos on YouTube or similar everyday? Would you like a simple a fast way to grab and download your favorite videos from major sharing sites?

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NetVideoHunter is a Firefox add-on, that you can use to instantly download videos and music from almost all video-sharing sites, supporting Youtube, MySpace Music, Google Video, Metacafe, Dailymotion, Break, Putfile, iFilm, Videoegg, Veoh, Blip.tv, and more.

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